The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 18

It is true, I have no power to undo entirely what my elder has done.

Who acts: disaster, I, power, elder · What happens: be, have, undo, do · To what, where: power

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (disaster, I, power, elder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	parataxis
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 power	det
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 undo	mark
10	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
11	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	10 undo	advmod
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 done	obj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 elder	nmod:poss
14	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 done	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 undo	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	disaster		true property	tree rules
2	have	present	I	no power		tree rules
3	undo	to-infinitive	no power not said here		entirely property	tree rules
4	do	present · perfect	my elder			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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